GeekWire Radio: The future of shopping, startups, venture capital, video games and more

This week on the GeekWire radio present, we revisit final month’s GeekWire Summit expertise convention, with highlights from 4 of the panels on the occasion. The GeekWire Summit is our annual expertise convention, bringing high CEOs from across the area and the nation for a dialogue about the way forward for expertise.

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We begin with the Way forward for Buying panel, that includes Jane Park, the CEO of cosmetics e-commerce startup Julep; Dr. Nadia Shouraboura, the CEO of robot-powered retail startup Hointer; Michael Smith, the CEO of natural meals supply service Full Circle Farms, and Mike Fridgen, who was the CEO of Determine.com, acquired by eBay final month.

This one acquired a lot of laughter for Shouraboura’s feedback evaluating bodily retail to intercourse — i.e., neither will be fully changed by the Web — and moderator Brad Stone (writer of the brand new ebook on Amazon) led a enjoyable dialogue with the panel on quite a lot of matters. Right here’s the total video if you wish to hear greater than the clip on the radio present.

Then we have now highlights from John Prepare dinner’s dialogue on stage with Wealthy Barton (of Expedia and Zillow) and Invoice Gurley, the well-known Silicon Valley enterprise capitalist and a member of the Zillow board. Right here’s the total video of that speak, past what we performed on the present.

After which we meet up with Blake Irving, the GoDaddy CEO and veteran of Microsoft and Yahoo. He talks about GoDaddy’s controversial previous and his efforts to reshape its picture and broaden its technique as a expertise supplier for small companies.

Right here’s the video of that speak.

Lastly, it’s the way forward for video video games, with Bonnie Ross, basic supervisor of Microsoft’s 343 Industries, maker of Halo; Glenn Walcott, president of social on line casino sport maker DoubleDown Interactive; David Edery, CEO of sport improvement studio Spry Fox. This was moderated by Ed Fries, former Microsoft sport studios boss and longtime sport business adviser. Right here’s the video of that panel:

We’ll be again subsequent week with a brand new episode of the GeekWire radio present from the KIRO studios.

(By the way in which, we simply held one other occasion, GeekWire Startup Day, yesterday on the Showbox Sodo. Startup Day focuses on entrepreneurial classes and conflict tales — a how-to information for startups — and the talks yesterday had been wonderful, as nicely. We’ll have video highlights from Startup Day beginning this weekend and working via subsequent week on GeekWire.)